Florida Mom Held Hostage Uses Pizza Hut App to Call for Help (PHOTO)

Pizza Hut employees called police after this order came in.Cool story--

A central Florida woman who says her boyfriend was holding her and her children hostage sent a secret message asking for help in an online pizza order.

Highlands County Investigators told NBC affiliate WFLA a Pizza Hut in Avon Park received an online order for pizza Monday afternoon from Cheryl Treadway. Under the comments section, Treadway wrote a message asking employees to call 911. The employees alerted police.

When deputies arrived at the home, Treadway answered the door and said her boyfriend, Ethan Nickerson had a knife. Deputies escorted Treadway and a child to safety and Highlands County Sherriff's Lt. Curtis Ludden says Nickerson was arrested. Two other children in the home were unharmed.

Deputies say Nickerson had been holding Treadway all day until she convinced him to let her order a pizza on her cellphone. (NBC Miami)